Using Moonlight Gu

Seeing Fang Yuan enjoying the serenity of the night made Li Wei and Lu Hua feel it too.

Their bodies began to relax and all their thoughts gradually calmed down as well, but because the cold air bit the parts of their bodies that were unprotected by clothing, it made them wake up soon.

They were also fascinated by Fang Yuan who was in that state, like what happened to Shen Cui before.

At Dong Tu's house, Shen Cui was still a servant, Dong Tu only threatened Shen Cui about the brothel. He really doesn't care if Shen Cui succeeds or fails in the first place, he only needs Shen Cui to do her best.

 But right now she still misses Fang Yuan.

'What is young master Fang Yuan doing right now? Ah ... I want to meet him!'

Shen Cui was in love, she felt that her day was filled with colors, but when a sense of longing came over her, she felt that the world was leaving her.

"Can I be with you, young master Fang Yuan?"

Shen Cui was sitting outside, she saw the moon shining brightly, only by looking at the moon could she cure her longing for Fang Yuan.

At the clan leader's house.

Fang Zheng was practicing using Moonlight Gu, he was trying to hit the grass puppet which was 20 meter away.

This grass puppet is not an ordinary one, this puppet is actually a Gu, Scarecrow Gu.

The clan leader wasn't teaching Fang Zheng right now, it was Fang Zheng's own effort to become stronger. 

Because of this, it makes it easier for the clan leader to train Fang Zheng.

"Talent alone is not enough to achieve greatness, it takes determination and countless efforts to become stronger. Looks like his separation from Fang Yuan is the right thing." Academy elder commented on Fang Zheng's practice.

The academy elder and the clan leader are actually watching Fang Zheng right now.

The academy elder was just about to go home after discussing some problems with the clan leaders and the clan leader who was standing beside the academy elder also thought the same.

The reason why the clan leader is on the outside right now is not to escort the academy elder, but to check on Fang Zheng's condition.

"Practicing with all your might is a good thing, but iron that is too hard to hit can break, everything must have a limit."

Gu Yue Bo said this to the academy elder.

"The clan leader is right. Because it is late at night, I will have to excuse myself first, clan leader."

The academy elder saluted the clan leader and left.

The clan leader still paid attention to the practicing Fang Zheng.

He felt that today's practice was enough, so he went to see Fang Zheng and advised him to continue his training tomorrow.

Fang Zheng immediately agreed to the suggestion from the clan leader. Sometimes Fang Zheng also repeated Fang Yuan's words when the clan leader advised him.

"You are indeed the clan leader, hitting iron when it's hot is a good thing, but everything has its limits."

Fang Zheng replied to the clan leader's words. He saluted and went inside to rest.

The clan leader felt that Fang Yuan was not an ordinary child, he could make the innocent Fang Zheng understand difficult situations sometimes. This made the clan leader see Fang Yuan in a different light.

"That child can say such things without anyone teaching him, maybe he got a different gift from heaven. But unfortunately, aperture grade is everything for Gu Master, because those who have talent can become the foundation to our Gu Yue clan. What is the use of some mere high intelligence if you can't become stronger ?"

The Gu Yue clan was a small clan, they really valued the existence of talented Gu Masters.

Fang Yuan only has a C grade talent, his journey can only reach Rank two at the end, to be able to pass that, it requires a very high price.

That's why the clan leader chose to give up on Fang Yuan.

The clan leader still hadn't been told by Fang Zheng about Fang Yuan's ability to conduct experiments that may increase the foundation of the Gu Yue clan. This is because Fang Yuan straight away told Fang Zheng to keep quiet about this matter, never saying it unless Fang Yuan himself opened it.

Fang Zheng of course would never say this if Fang Yuan asked for it, because this was the result of Fang Yuan's hard work, Fang Zheng in this time trusted him very much.

Fang Yuan also added that the clan leader is not a good person, he actually only cares about the village. He even separated the twins for this.

Several days have passed.

It is spring now, the spring air blows all over the hill, wild flowers are already blooming beautifully, attracting insects.

The breath of spring was so strong that the tall bamboo walls surrounding the training grounds could not hold it back.

This training field occupied 3 Mu[1]. The ground was flat, paved with a layer of thick and wide gray graphite. Its four sides were planted with green spear bamboo; these green poles were placed closely together side by side, straight and tall, forming a circle of green high walls.

While below the wall corners were stone as well, clumps of green grass emerged from many areas. In between the bamboo were also some wild roses, poking in from the outside, a few even climbing the wall.

Fifty-seven young teens at the age of fifteen were standing in the midst of the training field right now, formed in a semi-circle around the academy elder who was in the center, putting their focus on him.

This was a lesson to teach the students on how to use the Moonlight Gu.

"The Moonlight Gu is our Gu Yue clan's symbolic Gu, just like the Xiong clan's Bear Strength Gu, and the Bai clan's Stream Gu. The majority of you on the field have chosen the Moonlight Gu as your vital Gu, so you must all watch properly. Soon I will demonstrate personally how to use the Moonlight Gu to attack. Students whose vital Gu is not the Moonlight Gu must also concentrate on me, as this classical long-distance attacking method can also be used on other Gu; the spectrum of methods one can use is very wide."

As he spoke, the academy elder stretched out his right hand, his five fingers opening wide. He lowered his palm so that the young teens could see the center of it.

"Firstly, you use your mind to mobilize the Moonlight Gu, moving it to the center of your palm." Following his voice, the crescent mark that represented the Moonlight Gu moved down the elder's arm and into his palm.

"Then, you mobilize the primeval essence in your aperture, pouring it into the Moonlight Gu." A thread of white silver colored primeval essence gushed out from the elder's body, so fine it was almost impossible to see. It entered the Moonlight Gu in his palm.

The academy elder was of a Rank three realm, and only Rank three Gu Masters could produce white silver colored primeval essence. Rank one Gu Master's primeval essence was commonly known as green copper primeval essence, while Rank two Gu Masters had theirs called red iron primeval essence. When they reach Rank three, it becomes white silver primeval essence.

Once it absorbed the thread of white silver primeval essence, the crescent-shaped mark in the elder's hand instantly glowed brighter and brighter. Although it was daytime, it still issued a brilliant pale-blue light.

The youths seemed excited about that.

Fang Yuan did not pay attention to it, he was looking at Fang Zheng. Fang Zheng had changed a lot, his expression looked more confident.

He has done a lot of training under the guidance of the clan leader so he thinks that he can show that result to Fang Yuan.

The academy elder continued his studies.

Fang Yuan saw this, he felt that it was something very wrong.

'He teaches these kids to run when they can't even crawl. What kind of teaching is this ?" Fang Yuan shook his head inwardly.

This was what the current academy elder was doing, he was only showing how it worked, not explaining why it worked.

This is one of the cultures of this world, the elders will teach the younger generation a twisted thing, even sometimes it is something incomprehensible. But the elders would think that the one that can't be able to comprehend it had no talent.

"What a shitty system."

Even the Fang Yuan that came from the earth could easily understand how Gu worked, because he read the RI novel.

For him, how to activate Gu, there are three stages.

The first was the initial stage, this happened when the Gu Masters flowed their primeval essence.

The second is the middle stage, this happens when Gu already has primeval essence and is waiting to be used.

Third is the final stage, this happens when Gu performs his function.

If only the academy elders had explained it like that, perhaps these young students would have a firmer foundation in using Gu. Not just merely using them.

The learning continues.

"All those of you who have refined the Moonlight Gu, step out. Each one of you shall take a grass puppet and follow the way I just did it, throwing out the moonblade, practice attacking."

Once the academy elder was finished, around thirty students stepped out.

In this batch the entire clan had a hundred young teens joining the Awakening Ceremony. Those who had cultivating talent were around fifty-seven.

Among these students, those who had chosen the Moonlight Gunumbered around thirty-five. After going through these few days of hard work, they had all refined the Moonlight Gu. Those that were left were all D grade talents. It was not because they did not desire to refine the Moonlight Gu, but it was due to the inability of their talent or financial problems, so they could only withdraw after learning of the difficulty.

To the youngsters of the Gu Yue clan, the Moonlight Gu was not a simple Gu worm, but the symbol of the clan's glory.

Very quickly thirty-five of them stood in a row. Each of them faced forward, standing ten meters away from a grass puppet on the opposite.

Fang Yuan stood in the middle of the row, but he did not garner any attention. The practice began.

The students all stretched out their right hands, trying to use their Gu.

Then there were several moonblades that were successfully fired, but that moonblade only lasted a moment before disappearing.

When everyone else failed, a moonblade with a perfect shape and bright blue light flew up and attacked the grass puppets.

It was Fang Zheng, the practice was worth it. He had mastered Moonlight Gu before the others had not used it.

Some of the students looked envious of this, Mo Bei looked at Fang Zheng with a look like he saw his rival, Chi Chen just snorted.

Fang Yuan laughed in his heart when he saw this.

He had already refined Gu while other students were trying to learn how to control their primeval essence, he had done his first try to shoot moonblade when the students tried to refine their Vital Gu, he had also carried out an experiment that even the most experienced Gu Master in this village unable to do, when the other students were just starting learning to activate their first Gu.

But Fang Yuan is grateful for a culture like this, with this he will be many people who have weak foundations in this Gu world. Of course this only applies to small clans like the Gu Yue clan.

Fang Yuan had refined the Liquor Worm and other Gu worms, using such a magnetic field-like technique, he could easily refine his Gu.

Because Fang Yuan already has an allowance, he now can focus on strengthening his foundation by training magnetic field-like techniques with Small Qi Gu.

Fang Zheng attack only hit the grass puppets, it did not have the ability to seriously injure it.

Fang Yuan had trained in using Moonlight Gu, but he still has not achieved the maximum use of Moonlight Gu. So he wants to try them in the near future.

When all the students' attention was on Fang Zheng, Fang Yuan attacked someone else's grass puppet.

The moonblade that Fang Yuan shot was cleanly chopped off the grass puppet. But no one saw his actions.

"Look, the grass puppet was cut off, who cut it?"

Then one of the students saw it, this also caught the academy's elder's attention. He thought there might be talent that he hadn't scanned, but no one knew whose doing.

Fang Yuan with his usual expression also seemed to want to know who fired it.

To dispel suspicion on him, Fang Yuan fired a moonblade with poor performance.

Everyone immediately assumed that it couldn't be Fang Yuan.

But Fang Zheng still looked at Fang Yuan, Fang Yuan was looking at the moonlight gu in his hand, he seemed curious about this Gu. But Fang Zheng had seen his brother shoot a perfect moonblade before, he knew that it was an attack made by his brother.

Fang Zheng had been training hard, but Fang Yuan was still ahead of him. He doesn't feel discouraged or discouraged, this even made him more excited.

'If you can do it big brother, why can't I?!'

Fang Zheng convinced himself that he could definitely catch up in his brother's footsteps.

When the students were still figuring out who fired the perfect moonblade earlier.

The elder took the opportunity and announced, "Listen up everyone, this will be your homework. Practice well after class, in three days I will check the results. Whoever performs the best will receive ten pieces of primeval stones as the prize. Understand?"

"Yes!" The young students all shouted loudly. They could not help but be more excited when they heard about the primeval stone reward.

However only three minutes later, the moonblades that flew about in the air started to thin gradually.

"Damn, every single moonblade takes up 10% of primeval essence!"

"The consumption of Moonlight Gu is just too much, I am just a C grade talent, my aperture can only hold 38% of green copper primeval essence. I can only throw out three moonblades. "

Those that stopped all sighed.

The academy elder was calm as he witnessed everything, but his heart sighed, "This is the benefit of those with high cultivating talent. To use the moonblade, it is simply just three words - Practice makes perfect. Those with higher grade talent are able to hold more primeval essence in their apertures, and the rate of recovery is faster, so they have more chances to practice. Those with poorer talent can also use primeval stones to make up for it, strengthening the number of practices. But those with low grade talent and have no primeval stones, though they have the mind to practice they will still be powerless. Sigh, the Gu Master's cultivation process is just so cruel. I had just better take care of those high grade talent students. "

[1].亩 - Mu, an ancient Chinese measurement. 1 Mu is 666 ⅔ meters²

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By Nefar-inn and Spyrakles